I feel like I should be excited as a Windows Phone user, but...I still don't quite fathom what usefulness Instagram has. Instant camera publishing?...I could already do that to Facebook pretty quickly on WP.

I feel like I should be excited as a Windows Phone user, but...I still don't quite fathom what usefulness Instagram has. Instant camera publishing?...I could already do that to Facebook pretty quickly on WP.

Agreed. Would be more interested/likely to make use of it if they had hooked it into the OS the same way they have other services. But I'm sure for the heavy Instagram users this will be a big deal if considering WP8.

Is alli care to say. This made news? That an app was released for a phone os. Really? Forgive me if I don't faint with the excitement.

I know. But since every reviews out there, particularly from anti-MS blogs, seems to mention the lack of Instagram as a big con of Windows Phone (doesn't matter there's an excellent 3rd party app like 6tag), it's fair that this makes news.

I feel like I should be excited as a Windows Phone user, but...I still don't quite fathom what usefulness Instagram has. Instant camera publishing?...I could already do that to Facebook pretty quickly on WP.

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You need to be an unattractive woman to truly understand the appeal of Instagram.

Is alli care to say. This made news? That an app was released for a phone os. Really? Forgive me if I don't faint with the excitement.

While I don't care about it either, I do recognize than many non-techie users would find a real/official client desirable. From what I've been told, 6tag is better than Instagram's appps, but that doesn't matter when folks want name recognition with their apps.

Its a marketing thing. Its good for the platform, even if we can't really get excited about it.

Finally people can stop whining and complaining about a lack of official Instagram App on WP8. <sarcasm>Oh, finally I can take pictures of my food and add a filter to make my great picture look crappy, then post it to yet another social network!!!</sarcasm>

I utterly fail to see why this app is so important to some people, or the need to add ugly-looking filters to make great pictures look like the bad pictures people took with poorer technologies from the 20th century. There were over half a dozen unofficial Instagram apps already. Just search 'instagram.' I would bet anyone $20 that if WP8 had Instagram from day 1, and Apple had only just gotten it, people wouldn't have been citing lack of Instagram as a reason not to buy Apple or a reason to buy WP8. Apple would've gotten a totally free ride from this site and CNet for not having Instagram.

If MS and Nokia want to do this the right way, they should do a deep integration between Instagram and WP8 like FB/Twitter have already.

Great news (from a 6tag user)--the "official" app may not be better, but is necessary to remove a barrier to acceptance for some.

I can't wait to to learn what is the Next Big Reason why nobody should buy a Windows Phone. ;-)

my guess is, once instagram arrives, there will be yet another thing to complain about.

for the same reason ppl want the brand name recognition that official apps bring, they don't want to buy into the ms/wp brand name. as a nokia lumia user, i'm accutely aware that ppl are buying into nokia, not wp. regular ppl i've met and talked to don't even know what ios, android or wp is. they identify these devices and assign value based on how cool, well known the brand is and how many of their friends have it.

ios, android, wp; these are things we here use to assess the viability of our product purchasewith pros and cons.

I'll go back to WP when it has an official Dropbox app with camera uploads enabled. It's the killer feature that drove me back to Android. I know third party apps exist, but I'm not giving my password to any third party no matter how safe they claim to be.

And no, SkyDrive is not an acceptable replacement; I want an instant upload solution that works seamlessly across all of my devices. So far, Dropbox is the only real option I've found. I really like my Nexus 4 but I'd trade it for a Lumia in a heartbeat if I could get a real Dropbox app.

"...and while the third-party clients are in many ways decent replacements..." Decent replacements? I imagine this will help bring in people still on the fence about Windows Phone, but once in the ecosystem, they will discover the superiority of 6tag and it will continue to be the enthusiasts ' choice.

I'll go back to WP when it has an official Dropbox app with camera uploads enabled. It's the killer feature that drove me back to Android. I know third party apps exist, but I'm not giving my password to any third party no matter how safe they claim to be.

And no, SkyDrive is not an acceptable replacement; I want an instant upload solution that works seamlessly across all of my devices. So far, Dropbox is the only real option I've found. I really like my Nexus 4 but I'd trade it for a Lumia in a heartbeat if I could get a real Dropbox app.

I believe SkyDrive apps are available for numerous other devices, but still, I can understand the desire for compatibility with existing solutions. I guess Microsoft hasn't really identified a better way to differentiate SkyDrive as a superior product than "It integrates with our other software"

I'll go back to WP when it has an official Dropbox app with camera uploads enabled. It's the killer feature that drove me back to Android. I know third party apps exist, but I'm not giving my password to any third party no matter how safe they claim to be.

And no, SkyDrive is not an acceptable replacement; I want an instant upload solution that works seamlessly across all of my devices. So far, Dropbox is the only real option I've found. I really like my Nexus 4 but I'd trade it for a Lumia in a heartbeat if I could get a real Dropbox app.

I believe SkyDrive apps are available for numerous other devices, but still, I can understand the desire for compatibility with existing solutions. I guess Microsoft hasn't really identified a better way to differentiate SkyDrive as a superior product than "It integrates with our other software"

Pretty much every device has a Skydrive app unless you use Linux and maybe Blackberry. If they had a Linux one I would move completely over to Skydrive because of the office web apps thing and I have a Windows Phone. But they don't so I continue to use Dropbox.

I also think auto camera uploading is only supported on WP and not Android or iOS even though they have Skydrive apps.

I'll go back to WP when it has an official Dropbox app with camera uploads enabled. It's the killer feature that drove me back to Android. I know third party apps exist, but I'm not giving my password to any third party no matter how safe they claim to be.

And no, SkyDrive is not an acceptable replacement; I want an instant upload solution that works seamlessly across all of my devices. So far, Dropbox is the only real option I've found. I really like my Nexus 4 but I'd trade it for a Lumia in a heartbeat if I could get a real Dropbox app.

I believe SkyDrive apps are available for numerous other devices, but still, I can understand the desire for compatibility with existing solutions. I guess Microsoft hasn't really identified a better way to differentiate SkyDrive as a superior product than "It integrates with our other software"

Pretty much every device has a Skydrive app unless you use Linux and maybe Blackberry. If they had a Linux one I would move completely over to Skydrive because of the office web apps thing and I have a Windows Phone. But they don't so I continue to use Dropbox.

I also think auto camera uploading is only supported on WP and not Android or iOS even though they have Skydrive apps.

That's exactly the problem, two of my devices run GNU/Linux and SkyDrive simply doesn't exist for that platform. Dropbox works on everything from my Android phone, to my wife's iPad, my laptop with Crunchbang Linux, my old Nokia N900 that I sometimes use at work (highly portable full Linux box with a real keyboard), and of course my Windows based workstations at home and work. My job involves a lot of quick snaps with my phone's camera all day, and I need near instant access to those photos on the next computer I sit down at. Without instant upload, my workflow would be broken.